The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
February 15, 2025There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle...
Trashed by Alison Gaylin
February 14, 2025These driven individuals scour celebrity garbage cans, pose as anyone but themselves, lie as though the...
What is intelligence? by James R. Flynn
February 14, 2025‘The Flynn Effect’ was the phrase Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray coined in their book...
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
February 14, 2025This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
Crossing Styx
February 13, 2025What happens to children is that they usually pass from believing that everything presented by television...
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
February 13, 2025A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is...
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
February 13, 2025The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
Mike Carey: Novelist and Comic Writer
February 13, 2025"People too content with their lot make lousy protagonists. (laughs) There has to be a source...
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
February 12, 2025Goodwin now returns with another mystery, a tale as exotic as the first one, delicious in...
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
February 12, 2025As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...




